On Nov 6, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Leonard Ehrenfried <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear list, > > I really hope I don't hurt anyones's feeling by saying that the current > vim.org website looks a little bit dated. I also happen to think that it > doesn't do a very good job of explaining what vim is and how to install it. > Lastly, it doesn't give you any hints on how to effectively manage your > plugins with tools like pathogen and/or bundle. Sounds good. Note that there’s a lot of info on vim in other places, like the vim wiki: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki , or vim’s documentation on source forge: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/ , or questions on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vim . Also, it’d be cool to integrate with github and bitbucket for plugins, instead of hosting them ourselves. We could still track releases (even in the same way github does: https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software ). Also we could track votes/github stars/whatever bitbucket does on the site. Most if not all of this (plugin) stuff could be done through APIs. > > I would like to change this and I was wondering if there is any sort of > appetite for updating the website? I would volunteer to implement/lead this > effort. > > In terms of inspiration I would look at the Linux kernel's website[0]. In my > opinion it scores nicely in the areas of simplicity and usability. > > How can you know if I'm competent and trustworthy? > > I have been a web developer for the last 5 years and I have quite an active > Github profile[1] I blog at http://leonard.io. I'm also maintaining a vim > syntax file[2]. Maybe this will give you an indication of the quality of my > work. > > Before I get ahead of myself in terms of planning I would like to gauge the > community's feelings towards an undertaking like this. I’m 100% with you on this. I’d say we need to: - Get buy in, are the original developers on board/ok with this? How about Bram? - Decide on tech. I don’t care too much what we use, but I’d suggest persona (https://login.persona.org/) for accounts/login. http://asciinema.org/ Already does this to great effect, here’s the pull request where that was done (for reference): https://github.com/sickill/asciinema.org/pull/141 . - Design it: the GNOME developers kept their Gnome Shell design in a GitHub repo (https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-shell-design), but anything that allows us to discuss/iterate on designs would probably work. - Implement it. Again discussion out in the open would be best for this, GitHub and I think Bitbucket have pull requests that we can use to comment on code inline. So who’s in!? > > Thanks a lot for listening, > Leonard > > [0] https://kernel.org > [1] https://github.com/lenniboy > [2] https://code.google.com/p/vim/source/browse/runtime/syntax/sshdconfig.vim > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
